And now Minneapolis has a half-naked candidate for mayor emerging from a swim to proclaim: "I will not take money from the developers. I will not take money from the political angle. I will not even go to the strip clubs anymore. Wake the f*** up!"

Jeffery Alan Wagner, one of nearly three dozen candidates for the highest office in Minnesota's biggest city, then walks back into the water.

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